2011/3/28 Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@xxxxxxxx>: > I'd take a look here: > http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_hierarchy.html Yes, I already played with dirty_*, min_free_kbytes (3000kb), swappiness (0..100), vfs_cache_pressure (1..200) and zone_reclaim_mode (currently 0). Other parameters are set to defaults. By the way, there is no swap enabled. Instead of just dropping 50% of page caches, kernel was intensively swapping then there was a swap device. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html